Fastening device.



= G. L. GUILLET. FASTENING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-17.1915.

Patented Jan. 16, 1917.

UMTED STATES PATENT orrron.

GEORGE L. GUILLET, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 BASTIAN BROTHERSCOMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF, NEW YORK.

FASTENING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1c, 1917.

Application filed September 17, 1915. Serial No. 51,192.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE L. GUILLET, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the countyof Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fastening Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to fastening-devices in the nature of clasp-pinsor safety-pins, such as are used in connection with badges or the like,'or for fastening various articles together. 1

One object of the invention is to produce a fastening-device in whichtwo pins are formed in one piece, together with the loops or retainerswith which they cooperate, from a single length of wire, thus producinga simple and cheap construction in which it is unnecessary to secure thepins together by means of solder or additional members.

A fastening-device formed in accordance with the present invention isparticularly useful in connection with a badge, since it provides, in asimple manner, the two pins which are employed, respectively, forfastening the badge to the clothing of the wearer, and for theattachment of a ribbon to the badge; and in this connection a furtherobject of the invention is to improve the construction, and reduce thecost, of such badges by using the one-piece construction above referredto, and by applying it to the body of the bad e in such a manner thatonly a single soldered joint is necessary for attaching the two pins tothe body of the badge.

To the foregoing ends the invention consists'in a fastening-device inwhich two pins are produced from a single length of wire, and in thecombination of such a fasteningdevice with a badge or the like, all ashereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear view, in perspective,of a badge provided with a fastening-device constructed in accordancewith the present invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section,looking from left to right in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top view of a badgeconstructed in accordance with the present invention; and Fig. 4: is adetail view of one end of the badge from the rear side thereof.

The invention is illustrated as employed in connection with a badge 5 ofsheet-metal,

which may be of any ordinary or suitable form and construction. Thefastening-dev ce, in which the invention particularly resides, comprisesa single length of wire, of which one end-portion forms a pin 6 havingapoint 7 and a base-end 8. The base-end of the pin 6 is continuous with adownwardly-extending and laterally deflected retaining-loop 9, and fromthis loop the wire then extends in the form of a straight shank 10,which extends parallel with the pin 6 and along the back of the badge.Continuous with the farther end of the shank 10 is a second oroutwardlyextending and laterally defiected retaining-loop 11, whichcooperates with the point 7 of the pin 6 in the manner of a safety-pin.From the loop 11 the wire then extends straight toward the loop 9, thusforming a second pin 12, parallel with the pin 6 but closer to the bodyof the badge, the free end 13 of the pin 12 cooperating with the loop 9in the manner of a safety-pin.

The shank 10 is shown as soldered to the rear surface of the badge, andthe pins 6 and 12 occupy, respectively, the positions in which they areconvenient for use in fastening the badge to the clothing of the wearer,and in supporting a ribbon. Since the ribbon is usually provided with ahem through which the pin 12 is passed, this pin is shown as having ablunt end, though it may be pointed if desired.

The pin 6 is disengaged from the loop 11 by pressing its point towardthe badge and then upwardly, while the pin 12 is disengaged from theloop 9 by pulling it away from the badge and then downwardly.

The two loops 9 and 11, in addition to acting as retainers for the endsof the pins, serve also to provide increased resiliency in the pins, inthe same manner as the coils which are commonly used atrthe junctionbetween the pin proper and the shank of the ordinary safety-pin.

- In badges as previously constructed two separate pins have beenemployed, each of these pins being soldered or otherwise fixedindependently to the body of the badge. It will be apparent that thepresent construction greatly simplifies the construction of the badge,and reduces its cost, since it not only permits the two pins to beproduced. at

one operation of an automatic wire-bending machine, but it alsosimplifies the assembling of the parts and eliminates one of the positeends of the shank portion, one of said joints necessary in previousconstructions. loops extending downwardly and the other I claim: 7 ofsaid loops extending outwardly, a pin 10 In combination with a badge, afastening extending from each loop, the pin on the 5 device formed froma single piece of wire downwardly turned loop being nearer the andhaving an intermediate shank portion badge and also lower than the otherpin. secured to the badge, retaining loops at op- V GEO. L. GUILLET.

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7 Washington, D. 0.

